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摘要

By most accounts, last year's Democratic National Convention (DNC) was a rousing success. And at least some small part of that is owing to Rusty Agee's progressive approach to incident response (IR). Not a politician or an event organizer, Agee is instead the information security engineer for the city of Charlotte, N.C., where the convention was held in early September 2012. A high-profile national forum, the DNC undoubtedly would have been a major target for hackers of all stripes, and yet the event went through with nary a major reported cyber security breach. With support from the city's IR vendor, Agee says that if a major attack had occurred, the IT team was ready.